Stairs Quotes

An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You should never see an Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order sign, just Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience.
Mitch Hedberg

Sorry, Become, Order

The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
Bette Davis

Time, Best, Down

God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole.
Ramakrishna

God, True, Important

Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.
Rudyard Kipling

Down, Fall, Backwards

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.
John Steinbeck

Work, Universe, Ahead

If I have to move up in a building, I choose the elevator over the escalator. Because one time I was riding the escalator and I tripped. I fell down the stairs for an hour and a half.
Demetri Martin

Time, Down, Move

You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.
Dante Alighieri

Hard, Down, Find

If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up like an old lady and push her down the stairs. If you want to make comedy writers laugh, you push an actual old lady down the stairs.
Tina Fey

Laugh, Down, Old

The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
Vance Havner

Enough, Vision, Step

Skateboarding teaches you how to take a fall properly. If you try to kickflip down some stairs, it might take you thirty tries - and you just learn how to take a tumble out of it without getting hurt.
Bam Margera

Hurt, Down, Try

Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs.
Jean Cocteau

Down, Joy, Play

I have a nervous breakdown in the film and in one scene I get to stand at the top of the stairs waving an empty sherry bottle which is, of course, a typical scene from my daily life, so isn't much of a stretch.
Emma Thompson

Life, Daily, Film

I trip walking down the stairs, but I can skate them probably.
Shaun White

Down, Walking, Trip

Two things are bad for the heart - running up stairs and running down people.
Bernard Baruch

Heart, Bad, Down

I have a two-story house and a bad memory, so I'm up and down those stairs all the time. That's my exercise.
Betty White

Time, Bad, Down

I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself.
Roald Dahl

School, Trying, Again

If I make your workplace conducive to walking at lunch, or working out at some time during the day, or I get people to use the stairs more by creating incentives to do such, then people will start doing it naturally.
Mehmet Oz

Time, Working, Start

I keep my own personality in a cupboard under the stairs at home so that no one else can see it or nick it.
Dawn French

Home, Else, Keep

I collect fantasy swords, replicas from films, and have them displayed on the wall as you go up the stairs.
Gary Numan

Films, Fantasy, Wall

Well, you know, I was raised by a 1970s feminist. My mom had a consciousness-raising group. I used to sit at the top of the stairs and listen to them.
Ayelet Waldman

Mom, Used, Group

I do a lot of stairs, a lot of planks, a lot of squats, a lot of treadmill, a lot of screaming - and I do it four times a week.
Sherri Shepherd

Times, Week, Four

I had to have help getting up these stairs because I've been tackled by so many lions and tigers. Really. I'm like an old football player.
Tippi Hedren

Help, Football, Old

I don't like lifts and will walk up 20 flights of stairs if I have to. Crowded rooms make me uncomfortable, too, although I can sing to a stadium full of thousands of people no bother.
Robin Gibb

Walk, Full, Sing

I was an athlete growing up. I was a wrestler, I played football, so I can take a fall. I actually wanted to be a stuntman when I was kid, so I would practice falling down the stairs. It's just something I like to do.
Chris Pratt

Football, Down, Wanted

I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it.
Carol Ann Duffy

Poetry, Write, Read

I visited Jobs for the last time in his Palo Alto, Calif., home. He had moved to a downstairs bedroom because he was too weak to go up and down stairs. He was curled up in some pain, but his mind was still sharp and his humor vibrant.
Walter Isaacson

Humor, Time, Home

Our house was bombed, and the roof fell in. We were sitting under the stairs of the basement, and we were quite safe, but it brought home the realization. In two nights 400 people were killed in small town.
Roger Bannister

Home, Two, Small

The Queen is the only person who can put on a tiara with one hand, while walking down stairs.
Princess Margaret

Person, Down, Put

A woman is gentle, soft, delicate, and a man's position is to protect her, help her up stairs, make sure she's in the car safely first. Take good care of your woman, and the sky's the limit!
Taraji P. Henson

Good, Car, Care

My father, though, could run very much faster. It was impossible to compete with him on the grass. But it was astonishing how slow old people were. Some of them could not run up a hill and called it trying to climb stairs.
Georg Brandes

Father, Him, Trying

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